Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
There was the Renaissance, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Commune of Paris, the Italian factory occupations after World War I, the Spanish Civil War, the events of May '68 in France, the civil rights movement...something like that can happen again if humanity can escape this mental cage it's been put in.
Haha. I noticed you didn't mention the American Revolution. Look where it got us, right?
Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
something like that can happen again if humanity can escape this mental cage it's been put in.
That's the thing. How impossible is it to bring us out of it? Would we all be enlightened? Even the majority. Impossible. And once we did, would our efforts to fix things succeed? The United States, like communism, are great ideas which just don't work. How do we know what will work? Has anything worked so far?

That leads us to anarchism, which I think is literally impossible to achieve, and if it is achieved, literally impossible to uphold. Government is inevitable. Power is an instinct. You can't ignore instincts. Plus what's to stop the next man from killing you on a whim? We would be unable to create any form of correspondence to people across the globe, because the lack of rules and regulations would prevent us from being capable of building a team coordinated enough to build something that sophisticated. In fact, any form of group bearing a set of rules would be contradictory to the essence of anarchism. Plus, the entire world would need to be anarchists, or the region who is would simply be overrun and taken over.